| 单词 | ill-gotten |
| 释义 | ill-gotten (once / 8336 pages) adj If you acquire something in a dishonest way — by stealing it, for example — it's ill-gotten. When a bully pressures classmates to hand over their lunch money, the bully might go home that day with a pocket full of ill-gotten quarters. You'll often find this adjective in the phrase "ill-gotten gains," a general description of anything that's obtained unethically. The CEO of a company who embezzles money from it might be caught with a bank account full of ill-gotten gains, and pawn shops are places where criminals sometimes sell the ill-gotten gains they've stolen. If your dog steals your dinner off the kitchen table, you can describe it as his ill-gotten steak. WORD FAMILYgotten: ill-gotten+/get: getable, gets, gettable, getting, got, gotten/getting: gettings USAGE EXAMPLESIn one case, officers forced the company to buy fructose it didn’t need because they wanted to unload merchandise he suspected was ill-gotten. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) With his ill-gotten gains, the Paramount resident returned to the casino in Hawaiian Gardens and gambled, prosecutors said. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) Big deposits would be scrutinized by tax authorities, driving those with large stocks of ill-gotten banknotes into a corner. Time(Nov 28, 2016) adj obtained illegally or by improper means ill-gotten gains Syn dirty illegal prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules |
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